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4k4' 4& Ujfillftfffttttt 1012 LQMY UHC TWrSr yUlMIMMW V COLUMBIA. 110. 65? U
75th Year No. 165 Good Morning! It's Saturday, March 26, 1983 2 Sections 14 Pages 25 Cents
Cook found
not guilty
of assault
By Scott Nishlmura
and Mark D. Grimm
Mlssourian staff writers
Jim Cook will pay his taxes nert
year.
" Not guilty," he said as he wait-ed
outside the Boone County Cir-cuit
courtroom Friday night " The
jury had better find her not guilty
or I'm going to stop paying taxes. "
At 11 p. m , the jury ended the
two- da- y trial of Cook's wife Mar- ceH- a
by delivering two not guilty
verdicts. Mrs. Cook, 32, of Roche- po- rt
had been charged with third- degr- ee
assault and resisting arrest
in connection with an incident in
which she was alleged to have as-saulted
an off- du- ty policewoman
with a milkshake, then refused to
go along peacefully.
Family and friends on both sides
of the case waited anxiously m the
halls and in the courtroom after the
case went to the jury about 8 p. m.
When the verdict was read, those
rooting for Mrs. Cook ignored a
stem warning by Associate Circuit
Judge Stan Clay, who had cau-tioned
against any courtroom out-bursts.
The verdict was greeted by
applause from several spectators.
Policewoman Laura Smith's
mother was not among them. Nor
were several police officers who
left the courtroom in disappoin-tment
Earlier in the day, Mrs. Cook
gave her version of the Jan. 7 inci-dent
at Hardee's of Columbia, 200
S. Providence Road. Nervous but
dogged, the 32- year-- old witness de-scribed
how her 2- yea-r-
old son,
Todd, dropped a tomato on Laura
Smith's jacket, and how Mrs.
Smith responded.
" She said, ' Goddamn you. Oh, s---,
look at this mess,' " Mrs. Cook
testified. " She wasmad."
As Mrs. Smith was returning
from the restroonv where she'd
gone to wipe off the tomato, Mrs.
Cook said she approached the
woman intending to give her $ 4 to
have the coat cleaned.
" She was coming down the aisle,
six or seven feet away," Mrs. Cook
said. " I tripped it was more of a
slip my feet went our from under
me."
Mrs. Smith's husband Ken, who
testified Thursday, contended Mrs.
Cook hadfaked the fall.
Mrs. Cook claimed that Ken
Smith came forward and said:
Attorney Ron Bartlett and his client, Marcella Cook. v. K. iEn
" I'm a police officer and she's a
police officer," pointing toward his
wife. Defense attorney Ron Bart-lett
asked Mrs Cook to describe
the look on Smith's face after the
milkshake spilled on his wife " The
chords of his neck were sticking
out," she said " I thought he was
going to attack me."
During cross- examinati- on by as-sistant
prosecutor Rusty Antel,
Mrs. Cook said she didn't believe
Smith's claim that he was a police
officer or hear Smith say he in-tended
to arrest her.
" You knew he was a police offi-cer,
didn't you?" Antel persisted.
" No, sir."
" Mrs. Cook, you're telling me all
those times he told you he was a po-lice
officer, you didn't take that se-riously?
You didn't realize he was
a police officer when he put hand-cuffs
on you?"
" Probably right there I might
have realized he was it's so un
real."
Among the nearly a dozen wit-nesses
who testified Fnday was
Sen. Roger Wilson, D- Colum-bia,
who was called as a character wit-ness
for Mrs. Cook.
Following announcement of the
verdict, Ken Smith said he intends
to proceed with a defamation, libel
and slander suit he has filed
against Mrs. Cook for statements
she has made in connection with
the incident.
Congress could help trim teacher shortage
By Jean Marie McDonnell
Washington bureau
WASHINGTON Missouri is pro-ducing
about half as many teachers
as it did 10 years ago. And those
numbers simply aren't adding up to
a whole lot of math teachers avail-able
for the state's schools.
But the state soon may be able to
alleviate its math teacher shortage
with money from a $ 1 billion math
and science education bill approved
by the House.
The shortage is acute; last year
the school systems needed 215 math
teachers, but only 59 were trained.
" Of that 59 only 40 percent will go to
the classrooms, the rest will go to in-dustry,"
says R. V. Wilson, state di-rector
of teacher education and cer-tification.
QCaDKff
And advanced science is no longer
a requirement for graduation.
" Since the courses are not required,
quite often they are not offered. If
they were, there would be an acute
shortage of physics and chemistry
teachers," Wilson says. Students
should have the opportunity to take
four or five units' of science instead
of the two units now offered, he says.
Columbia Public Schools have
been cushioned from the teacher
shortage somewhat because of the
supply of education students grad-uating
from the University, but
there have been tunes when the
shortage of math and science teach- -
ers has been felt. " If we had to hire
someone late, we would have ex-treme
difficulty filling the job," says
Jim Bitter, director of personnel for
the school district. The school sys-tem
chose three math and science
teachers last year from about 16 ap-plicants
for English teacher open-ings
there were about 100 applicants.
To fight the shortage of math
teachers, the state set up a summer
institute to retrain elementary
school teachers so they could teach
junior high math classes. The pro-gram
was working, Wilson says, but
it died because the school districts
lacked money, and funding from the
state Department of Education was
not enough. Wilson says he hopes to
revi" e the program in summer 1984.
If the math- scienc- e bill becomes
law, there will be federal money to
help Missouri schools The bill sped
through House committee hearings
and won on the floor 348 to 54 Rep.
Harold Volkmer, D- M- o., voted for
the bill.
Missouri congressman Tom Cole-man
not only voted for the bill, he
pushed for the bill's passage.
" We ( members of the House) have
had our differences over the types of
programs to include in this bill, and
the price of the bill. But one thing we
do not differ on is the need for this
bill," says Coleman, the senior Re-publican
member of the Post- Seconda- ry
Education Subcommittee.
" Because of the shortage of persons
trained in math, science, engi-neering
and other technical fields,
America is losing its position as the
See HOUSE, Page 8A
City car found in Illinois
after keys left in vehicle
ByJohnBoudreau
Mlssourian staff writer
When Columbia Business License
Office Director J. W. " Chubb" Phil-lips
came out of Boone County Lum-ber
Co. late Monday afternoon and
saw that the city car he was driving
was missing, he thought it was a
practical joke.
It was no joke. The car had been
stolea
And to make matters worse, Phil-lips
had made it easy by leaving the
car keys in the ignition. The thief
moved swiftly, because Phillips
wasn't in the shop longer than 10
minutes, and wasnt more than 10
feetawayfrom the car.
Phillips wont comment on the in-cident
Boone County Lumber Co.
salesman Jim Kidwell said Phillips
thought one of the employees there
bid the car. " We pull that stuff all
the time," be said. " We even looked
in the yard to see if someone bad hid
4
it on him."
But six hours later, authorities in
Clark County, HI., picked up Paul
Leroy Lewis, 32, of Cheyenne, Wyo.,
in connection with stealing the city's
Chevolet Nova that Phillips was us-ing.
Tuesday, at the city's expense,
Phillips was Sown to Illinois to re-trieve
the car. He was reprimanded
by his superior, Columbia Finance
Director Harold Boldt, for the inci-dent,
even though Phillips offered to
payfor the trip out
' It was an unfortunate incident,"
Boldt said. " Chubb is a very respon-sible
employee. I was surpised be
left the keys in the car. He made a
stupid mistake, but these things hap-pen."
Phillips has been the business li-cense
director for almost 13 years.
Police Lt. Tom Hudson said it's
seldom that a city vehicle is stolen,
though employees sometimes leave
their keys in the vehicle they are us-ing
in case it has to be moved.
9 a. m. to 5 p. m. Magazine and
textbook sale sponsored by
Friends of the Public Library,
Columbia Public Library, 1001
W. Broadway.
2 p. m. Fiddler's Contest, The
Front Porch, Walnut Street and
Garth Avenue Prizes awarded
to top ten finishers Free ad-mission
to performers, $ 2 for
spectators
7 and 9: 30 p. m. " Southern
Comfort," film, Middlebush Au-ditorium,
University
Inside
Business ..... 6B
Classified ....... ........ 4- 5- B
Comics 3B
Opinion ....... . ..... 4A
Record ,. 7A
Religion 5A
Sports . 1- 2- B
Reagan seeking
unity on budget
WASHINGTON ( UPI) - Presi-dent
Reagan, stung by a congressio-nal
setback on the budget, spent Fn-day
trying to minimize the damage
and recoup some losses.
He reminded Democrats that it
was cooperation, not confrontation,
that created the Social Security res-cue
program and recession relief
jobs package.
Reagan signed the jobs measure
into law Thursday night and was ex-pected
to expedite approval of the
Social Security legislation, which
was passed by Congress Fnday
morning.
He opened a bnef news conference
Fnday by praising the bipartisan
approach to solving those problems
and said " for the sake of our people,
I'm gratified that good sense did
prevail over partisan concerns."
The president's comments came
just one day after the House voted
229- 19- 6 to approve a $ 863 billion fed-eral
budget designed by Democrats
who control that body of Congress It
was the biggest setback the presi-dent
has suffered on an economic
measure since he entered the White
House. Democrats, who picked up 26
seats in last November's elecbons,
made the budget vote a test of party
loyalty.
Reagan attempted Fnday to keep
the possibilities of a voting coalition
alive as he asked all members of
Congress to work with him " to hold
down spending and taxes in the
same bipartisan spint that's brought
us such great progress on jobs and
Social Secunty.
" Working together, avoiding a re-turn
to narrow partisanship, we can
ensure ( an economic) recovery
that's strong and long- lasti- ng "
On other matters
Reagan denied his plan for a
space- ag- e shield against Soviet mis-siles
violates existing anu- ballist- ic
missile treaties " ABM has to do
with deployment It has nothing to
do with reasearch which is what
we've been calbng for. he said Lat-er
in the day, Reagan signed an ex-ecutive
directive to launch a study
into development of the defense sys-tem.
v The president said he did not
think the storm of charges against
the Environmental Protechon Agen-cy
and the five new resignations
there " necessanly looks bad No
proof of any wrongdoing has been
presented in all of this fuss," he said
Reagan said he would not sup-port
an energy tax at this time be-cause
of declining oil prices He said
the economic recovery underway
proves administration policies are
working and tnat " to pick this time
now to raise taxes m any way is nsk- in- g
setting back this recovery "
The president also said he was
sticking with Kenneth Adelman as
his choice to head the Arms Control
and Disarmament Agency Reagan
said Adelman was extremely qual-ified
for the post and shrugged off
cnticisms of his nominee over per-sonnel
matters and controversial
memos.
EPA exodus goes on
as five more resign
WASHINGTON ( UPI) Presi-dent
Reagan Fnday accepted the
resignations of acting Environmen-tal
Protection Agency chief John
Hernandez and four other top EPA
officials in a major housecleaning at
the embattled agency.
Career EPA employees broke out
bottles of champagne to celebrate
the shakeup, and administration offi-cials
said more resignations are ex-pected
before William Ruckelshaus
assumes command of the agency in
the coming weeks
" I don't think it necessanly looks
bad," Reagan told a news bnefing in
response to questions about the lat-est
exodus of high- lev- el EPA offi-cials.
It brought to 13 the number of
political appointees who have quit or
been fired from agency posts since
early February.
Reagan said most of the officials
who departed Fnday left of their
own accord. He said they felt their
departures would give the agency
" far more chance of success that
they can contribute by leaving "
But presidential aides said several
of the officials, accused of cozy ties
with companies EPA regulates,
were pressed to resign by the White
House in hopes of silencing the con-troversy
surrounding the agency be-fore
Ruckelshaus takes charge.
Deputy White House press secre-tary
Larry Speakes said Reagan had
accepted the resignations of Hernan-dez;
John Todhunter, assistant ad-ministrator
for pesticides and toxic
substances; general counsel Robert
Perry; Paul Cahill, chief of the Of-fice
of Federal Activities; and John
Daniel, chief of staff to former ad-ministrator
Anne Burf ord
Speakes said Darnel will remain as
a special assistant to Ruckelshaus
during the transition penod
Cahill said his resignation was un-solicited,
and he resigned Thursday
unaware other EPA officials had
been asked to do likewisr- - In his let-ter
of resignation, Cahill said he quit
because " a new manager should be
able to bnng on his new team" and
because of an offer to practice law m
California
Cahill and a former aide, Loui
Cordia, who resigned recently, are
under investigation by EPA's in-spector
general's office because of
disclosures Cordia authored a " hit
list" of careers employees targeted
for firing and because of allegations
highly paid employees of the office
have been given paper- shufflin- g
jobs
Hernandez, Perry and Todhunter
were not m their offices, and their
staffs said no interviews would be
granted.
Hernandez, Todhunter, Perry and
Cahill face investigations by EPA's
inspector general's office and con-gressional
panels
Agency sources said employees
throughout the agency partied and
poured champagne following the
White House announcement
" Getting nd of Perry- - and Tod-hunter
in the same day calls for a
celebration," one career employee
said. " I'm contnbuting a case of
champagne."
White House, congressional and
EPA sources said others likely to be
asked to leave in the coming weeks
include: Fredenc Eidsness, assist-ant
administrator for water; Kath-leen
Bennett, assistant administra-tor
for air, noise and radiation;
Steven Durham, head of the agen-cy's
Denver regional office, Peter
Bibco, administrator of the Philadel-phia
office, and possibly Soma Crow,
head of the San Francisco office.
UMC professor wins Jefferson award
By Major Garrett
Mlssourian staff writer
ST. LOUIS University agncul- tur- e
professor Harold F. Breimyer
has been named this year's recipient
of the prestigious Thomas Jefferson
award.
The announcement was made by
University President James Olson at
Friday's Board of Curators meeting.
The award is given to the University
system professor who best exempli-fies
the principles of Jefferson
through personal influence as a edu-cator
and through writing, schol-arship
and character.
The 69- year- o- ld Breimyer, the au-thor
of the Economic and Marketing
Information Newsletter, which is cir-culated
nationally, was selected for
the honor from nominees submitted
from all four campuses.
Breimyer, who was born in Fort
Recovery, Ohio, received a bache-lor's
degree from The Ohio State
University in Columbus in 1934. He
received his master's degree from
the same institution the following
year before additional graduate
ft M fB
Harold F. Breimyer
Wins Jefferson award
work at the University of California- Berkele- y.
He earned a doctorate in
economics from Amencan Universi-ty
in 1960.
With the exception of two years
from 1959- 6- 1 when he served as a
staff economist for agnculture with
the President's Board of Economic
!
Advisors Breimyer was with the
U. S. Department of Agnculture
from 1936- 66- .
He joined the University faculty m
1966 and was the Perry Foundation
Professor of Agncultural Economics
from 1973 to 1980 He also served as
president of the Amencan Agncultu-ral
Economics Association in 1969
and was named a fellow in the asso-ciation
m 1972.
Breimyer has published three
books and hundreds of articles on
agricultural economics. Before com-ing
to the University, Breimyer
spent a year as a visbng professor at
the University of Illinois m Urbana- Champaig- n.
Breimyer and his wife, the former
Rachel Styles of Georgia, have a son
and three grandchfldrea He is a
member of the Columbia Council of
Churches and Lions International
and is a retired lieutenant com-mander
in the U S. Navy.
Breimyer will be presented with
the award April 13 Jefferson's
birthday.
Couiadentally, it's also Breimy- er'- s.
1

4k4' 4& Ujfillftfffttttt 1012 LQMY UHC TWrSr yUlMIMMW V COLUMBIA. 110. 65? U
75th Year No. 165 Good Morning! It's Saturday, March 26, 1983 2 Sections 14 Pages 25 Cents
Cook found
not guilty
of assault
By Scott Nishlmura
and Mark D. Grimm
Mlssourian staff writers
Jim Cook will pay his taxes nert
year.
" Not guilty," he said as he wait-ed
outside the Boone County Cir-cuit
courtroom Friday night " The
jury had better find her not guilty
or I'm going to stop paying taxes. "
At 11 p. m , the jury ended the
two- da- y trial of Cook's wife Mar- ceH- a
by delivering two not guilty
verdicts. Mrs. Cook, 32, of Roche- po- rt
had been charged with third- degr- ee
assault and resisting arrest
in connection with an incident in
which she was alleged to have as-saulted
an off- du- ty policewoman
with a milkshake, then refused to
go along peacefully.
Family and friends on both sides
of the case waited anxiously m the
halls and in the courtroom after the
case went to the jury about 8 p. m.
When the verdict was read, those
rooting for Mrs. Cook ignored a
stem warning by Associate Circuit
Judge Stan Clay, who had cau-tioned
against any courtroom out-bursts.
The verdict was greeted by
applause from several spectators.
Policewoman Laura Smith's
mother was not among them. Nor
were several police officers who
left the courtroom in disappoin-tment
Earlier in the day, Mrs. Cook
gave her version of the Jan. 7 inci-dent
at Hardee's of Columbia, 200
S. Providence Road. Nervous but
dogged, the 32- year-- old witness de-scribed
how her 2- yea-r-
old son,
Todd, dropped a tomato on Laura
Smith's jacket, and how Mrs.
Smith responded.
" She said, ' Goddamn you. Oh, s---,
look at this mess,' " Mrs. Cook
testified. " She wasmad."
As Mrs. Smith was returning
from the restroonv where she'd
gone to wipe off the tomato, Mrs.
Cook said she approached the
woman intending to give her $ 4 to
have the coat cleaned.
" She was coming down the aisle,
six or seven feet away," Mrs. Cook
said. " I tripped it was more of a
slip my feet went our from under
me."
Mrs. Smith's husband Ken, who
testified Thursday, contended Mrs.
Cook hadfaked the fall.
Mrs. Cook claimed that Ken
Smith came forward and said:
Attorney Ron Bartlett and his client, Marcella Cook. v. K. iEn
" I'm a police officer and she's a
police officer," pointing toward his
wife. Defense attorney Ron Bart-lett
asked Mrs Cook to describe
the look on Smith's face after the
milkshake spilled on his wife " The
chords of his neck were sticking
out," she said " I thought he was
going to attack me."
During cross- examinati- on by as-sistant
prosecutor Rusty Antel,
Mrs. Cook said she didn't believe
Smith's claim that he was a police
officer or hear Smith say he in-tended
to arrest her.
" You knew he was a police offi-cer,
didn't you?" Antel persisted.
" No, sir."
" Mrs. Cook, you're telling me all
those times he told you he was a po-lice
officer, you didn't take that se-riously?
You didn't realize he was
a police officer when he put hand-cuffs
on you?"
" Probably right there I might
have realized he was it's so un
real."
Among the nearly a dozen wit-nesses
who testified Fnday was
Sen. Roger Wilson, D- Colum-bia,
who was called as a character wit-ness
for Mrs. Cook.
Following announcement of the
verdict, Ken Smith said he intends
to proceed with a defamation, libel
and slander suit he has filed
against Mrs. Cook for statements
she has made in connection with
the incident.
Congress could help trim teacher shortage
By Jean Marie McDonnell
Washington bureau
WASHINGTON Missouri is pro-ducing
about half as many teachers
as it did 10 years ago. And those
numbers simply aren't adding up to
a whole lot of math teachers avail-able
for the state's schools.
But the state soon may be able to
alleviate its math teacher shortage
with money from a $ 1 billion math
and science education bill approved
by the House.
The shortage is acute; last year
the school systems needed 215 math
teachers, but only 59 were trained.
" Of that 59 only 40 percent will go to
the classrooms, the rest will go to in-dustry,"
says R. V. Wilson, state di-rector
of teacher education and cer-tification.
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And advanced science is no longer
a requirement for graduation.
" Since the courses are not required,
quite often they are not offered. If
they were, there would be an acute
shortage of physics and chemistry
teachers," Wilson says. Students
should have the opportunity to take
four or five units' of science instead
of the two units now offered, he says.
Columbia Public Schools have
been cushioned from the teacher
shortage somewhat because of the
supply of education students grad-uating
from the University, but
there have been tunes when the
shortage of math and science teach- -
ers has been felt. " If we had to hire
someone late, we would have ex-treme
difficulty filling the job," says
Jim Bitter, director of personnel for
the school district. The school sys-tem
chose three math and science
teachers last year from about 16 ap-plicants
for English teacher open-ings
there were about 100 applicants.
To fight the shortage of math
teachers, the state set up a summer
institute to retrain elementary
school teachers so they could teach
junior high math classes. The pro-gram
was working, Wilson says, but
it died because the school districts
lacked money, and funding from the
state Department of Education was
not enough. Wilson says he hopes to
revi" e the program in summer 1984.
If the math- scienc- e bill becomes
law, there will be federal money to
help Missouri schools The bill sped
through House committee hearings
and won on the floor 348 to 54 Rep.
Harold Volkmer, D- M- o., voted for
the bill.
Missouri congressman Tom Cole-man
not only voted for the bill, he
pushed for the bill's passage.
" We ( members of the House) have
had our differences over the types of
programs to include in this bill, and
the price of the bill. But one thing we
do not differ on is the need for this
bill," says Coleman, the senior Re-publican
member of the Post- Seconda- ry
Education Subcommittee.
" Because of the shortage of persons
trained in math, science, engi-neering
and other technical fields,
America is losing its position as the
See HOUSE, Page 8A
City car found in Illinois
after keys left in vehicle
ByJohnBoudreau
Mlssourian staff writer
When Columbia Business License
Office Director J. W. " Chubb" Phil-lips
came out of Boone County Lum-ber
Co. late Monday afternoon and
saw that the city car he was driving
was missing, he thought it was a
practical joke.
It was no joke. The car had been
stolea
And to make matters worse, Phil-lips
had made it easy by leaving the
car keys in the ignition. The thief
moved swiftly, because Phillips
wasn't in the shop longer than 10
minutes, and wasnt more than 10
feetawayfrom the car.
Phillips wont comment on the in-cident
Boone County Lumber Co.
salesman Jim Kidwell said Phillips
thought one of the employees there
bid the car. " We pull that stuff all
the time," be said. " We even looked
in the yard to see if someone bad hid
4
it on him."
But six hours later, authorities in
Clark County, HI., picked up Paul
Leroy Lewis, 32, of Cheyenne, Wyo.,
in connection with stealing the city's
Chevolet Nova that Phillips was us-ing.
Tuesday, at the city's expense,
Phillips was Sown to Illinois to re-trieve
the car. He was reprimanded
by his superior, Columbia Finance
Director Harold Boldt, for the inci-dent,
even though Phillips offered to
payfor the trip out
' It was an unfortunate incident,"
Boldt said. " Chubb is a very respon-sible
employee. I was surpised be
left the keys in the car. He made a
stupid mistake, but these things hap-pen."
Phillips has been the business li-cense
director for almost 13 years.
Police Lt. Tom Hudson said it's
seldom that a city vehicle is stolen,
though employees sometimes leave
their keys in the vehicle they are us-ing
in case it has to be moved.
9 a. m. to 5 p. m. Magazine and
textbook sale sponsored by
Friends of the Public Library,
Columbia Public Library, 1001
W. Broadway.
2 p. m. Fiddler's Contest, The
Front Porch, Walnut Street and
Garth Avenue Prizes awarded
to top ten finishers Free ad-mission
to performers, $ 2 for
spectators
7 and 9: 30 p. m. " Southern
Comfort," film, Middlebush Au-ditorium,
University
Inside
Business ..... 6B
Classified ....... ........ 4- 5- B
Comics 3B
Opinion ....... . ..... 4A
Record ,. 7A
Religion 5A
Sports . 1- 2- B
Reagan seeking
unity on budget
WASHINGTON ( UPI) - Presi-dent
Reagan, stung by a congressio-nal
setback on the budget, spent Fn-day
trying to minimize the damage
and recoup some losses.
He reminded Democrats that it
was cooperation, not confrontation,
that created the Social Security res-cue
program and recession relief
jobs package.
Reagan signed the jobs measure
into law Thursday night and was ex-pected
to expedite approval of the
Social Security legislation, which
was passed by Congress Fnday
morning.
He opened a bnef news conference
Fnday by praising the bipartisan
approach to solving those problems
and said " for the sake of our people,
I'm gratified that good sense did
prevail over partisan concerns."
The president's comments came
just one day after the House voted
229- 19- 6 to approve a $ 863 billion fed-eral
budget designed by Democrats
who control that body of Congress It
was the biggest setback the presi-dent
has suffered on an economic
measure since he entered the White
House. Democrats, who picked up 26
seats in last November's elecbons,
made the budget vote a test of party
loyalty.
Reagan attempted Fnday to keep
the possibilities of a voting coalition
alive as he asked all members of
Congress to work with him " to hold
down spending and taxes in the
same bipartisan spint that's brought
us such great progress on jobs and
Social Secunty.
" Working together, avoiding a re-turn
to narrow partisanship, we can
ensure ( an economic) recovery
that's strong and long- lasti- ng "
On other matters
Reagan denied his plan for a
space- ag- e shield against Soviet mis-siles
violates existing anu- ballist- ic
missile treaties " ABM has to do
with deployment It has nothing to
do with reasearch which is what
we've been calbng for. he said Lat-er
in the day, Reagan signed an ex-ecutive
directive to launch a study
into development of the defense sys-tem.
v The president said he did not
think the storm of charges against
the Environmental Protechon Agen-cy
and the five new resignations
there " necessanly looks bad No
proof of any wrongdoing has been
presented in all of this fuss," he said
Reagan said he would not sup-port
an energy tax at this time be-cause
of declining oil prices He said
the economic recovery underway
proves administration policies are
working and tnat " to pick this time
now to raise taxes m any way is nsk- in- g
setting back this recovery "
The president also said he was
sticking with Kenneth Adelman as
his choice to head the Arms Control
and Disarmament Agency Reagan
said Adelman was extremely qual-ified
for the post and shrugged off
cnticisms of his nominee over per-sonnel
matters and controversial
memos.
EPA exodus goes on
as five more resign
WASHINGTON ( UPI) Presi-dent
Reagan Fnday accepted the
resignations of acting Environmen-tal
Protection Agency chief John
Hernandez and four other top EPA
officials in a major housecleaning at
the embattled agency.
Career EPA employees broke out
bottles of champagne to celebrate
the shakeup, and administration offi-cials
said more resignations are ex-pected
before William Ruckelshaus
assumes command of the agency in
the coming weeks
" I don't think it necessanly looks
bad," Reagan told a news bnefing in
response to questions about the lat-est
exodus of high- lev- el EPA offi-cials.
It brought to 13 the number of
political appointees who have quit or
been fired from agency posts since
early February.
Reagan said most of the officials
who departed Fnday left of their
own accord. He said they felt their
departures would give the agency
" far more chance of success that
they can contribute by leaving "
But presidential aides said several
of the officials, accused of cozy ties
with companies EPA regulates,
were pressed to resign by the White
House in hopes of silencing the con-troversy
surrounding the agency be-fore
Ruckelshaus takes charge.
Deputy White House press secre-tary
Larry Speakes said Reagan had
accepted the resignations of Hernan-dez;
John Todhunter, assistant ad-ministrator
for pesticides and toxic
substances; general counsel Robert
Perry; Paul Cahill, chief of the Of-fice
of Federal Activities; and John
Daniel, chief of staff to former ad-ministrator
Anne Burf ord
Speakes said Darnel will remain as
a special assistant to Ruckelshaus
during the transition penod
Cahill said his resignation was un-solicited,
and he resigned Thursday
unaware other EPA officials had
been asked to do likewisr- - In his let-ter
of resignation, Cahill said he quit
because " a new manager should be
able to bnng on his new team" and
because of an offer to practice law m
California
Cahill and a former aide, Loui
Cordia, who resigned recently, are
under investigation by EPA's in-spector
general's office because of
disclosures Cordia authored a " hit
list" of careers employees targeted
for firing and because of allegations
highly paid employees of the office
have been given paper- shufflin- g
jobs
Hernandez, Perry and Todhunter
were not m their offices, and their
staffs said no interviews would be
granted.
Hernandez, Todhunter, Perry and
Cahill face investigations by EPA's
inspector general's office and con-gressional
panels
Agency sources said employees
throughout the agency partied and
poured champagne following the
White House announcement
" Getting nd of Perry- - and Tod-hunter
in the same day calls for a
celebration," one career employee
said. " I'm contnbuting a case of
champagne."
White House, congressional and
EPA sources said others likely to be
asked to leave in the coming weeks
include: Fredenc Eidsness, assist-ant
administrator for water; Kath-leen
Bennett, assistant administra-tor
for air, noise and radiation;
Steven Durham, head of the agen-cy's
Denver regional office, Peter
Bibco, administrator of the Philadel-phia
office, and possibly Soma Crow,
head of the San Francisco office.
UMC professor wins Jefferson award
By Major Garrett
Mlssourian staff writer
ST. LOUIS University agncul- tur- e
professor Harold F. Breimyer
has been named this year's recipient
of the prestigious Thomas Jefferson
award.
The announcement was made by
University President James Olson at
Friday's Board of Curators meeting.
The award is given to the University
system professor who best exempli-fies
the principles of Jefferson
through personal influence as a edu-cator
and through writing, schol-arship
and character.
The 69- year- o- ld Breimyer, the au-thor
of the Economic and Marketing
Information Newsletter, which is cir-culated
nationally, was selected for
the honor from nominees submitted
from all four campuses.
Breimyer, who was born in Fort
Recovery, Ohio, received a bache-lor's
degree from The Ohio State
University in Columbus in 1934. He
received his master's degree from
the same institution the following
year before additional graduate
ft M fB
Harold F. Breimyer
Wins Jefferson award
work at the University of California- Berkele- y.
He earned a doctorate in
economics from Amencan Universi-ty
in 1960.
With the exception of two years
from 1959- 6- 1 when he served as a
staff economist for agnculture with
the President's Board of Economic
!
Advisors Breimyer was with the
U. S. Department of Agnculture
from 1936- 66- .
He joined the University faculty m
1966 and was the Perry Foundation
Professor of Agncultural Economics
from 1973 to 1980 He also served as
president of the Amencan Agncultu-ral
Economics Association in 1969
and was named a fellow in the asso-ciation
m 1972.
Breimyer has published three
books and hundreds of articles on
agricultural economics. Before com-ing
to the University, Breimyer
spent a year as a visbng professor at
the University of Illinois m Urbana- Champaig- n.
Breimyer and his wife, the former
Rachel Styles of Georgia, have a son
and three grandchfldrea He is a
member of the Columbia Council of
Churches and Lions International
and is a retired lieutenant com-mander
in the U S. Navy.
Breimyer will be presented with
the award April 13 Jefferson's
birthday.
Couiadentally, it's also Breimy- er'- s.
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